In this dissertation, I investigate the sensitivity of ϕ-agreement to features typically
associated with Ā-extraction, including those related to wh-questioning, relativization, focus …

The Bantu languages are in some sense remarkably uniform (SVO basic word order, noun
classes, verbal morphology), but this extensive language family also show a wealth of …

This paper presents an analysis of the Russian declension in Nanosyntax (Starke 2009,
2018). The analysis has two theoretically important aspects. First, it makes no reference to …

This paper addresses a recent trend in the study of language variation and universals,
namely to attribute cross-linguistic patterns to diachrony, rather than to other causal factors …

The theory of language must predict the possible thought—signal (or meaning—sound or
sign) pairings of a language. We argue for a Meaning First architecture of language where a …

The nominative, the accusative and the dative have been recently argued to stand in proper
containment to one another. In contrast to more traditional decompositions which posited no …

I show that case syncretism obeys the same* ABA restriction previously observed in case-
sensitive suppletion: no Vocabulary-Insertion rule can apply to both an inherent case and an …

Definite descriptions may give rise to anaphoric interpretations. Addressing this, work in
semantics has led to syntactic claims that anaphora-encoding indices are syntactically …

This paper examines plural suppletion in the Barguzin dialect of Buryat (Mongolic, Russia),
which occurs only in accusative and genitive noun phrases. The restricted distribution of this …

The present article provides a case study of the forms corresponding to the meaning 'small'in
Swedish, which exhibit a number-based suppletive alternation: descriptively, liten appears …